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Harold N. Bassett

Male 1925 - 1995  (70 years)


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  • Name Harold N. Bassett 
    Born 15 Mar 1925  New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    _UID 2443B09886B7AD44AA3500C7A1B14D5B7D02 
    Died 29 Sep 1995  Falls Church, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Cause: Cancer 
    Notes 
    • The Washington Post, DC
      September 30, 1995
      Harold N. Bassett - FBI Official
      Harold N. Bassett, 70, who retired in 1979 as assistant director of the FBI records management division, died of cancer September 29 at his Falls Church home. He moved to Northern Virginia about 35 years ago. Mr. Bassett began his 29 year career with the FBI as a special agent on the West Coast. He later was a personnel officer, executve assistant to the associate director and assistant director of inspection and administrative services divisions.
      Mr. Bassett was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a graduate of Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. He served in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II. After he retired, Mr. Bassett was executive director for about six months of the Connecticut state division of special revenues.
      He was a member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. Survivors include his wife, Diane Thomson Bassett of Falls Church; a daughter, Jill Clum of Broad Run, Virginia; a sister, Dorothy Pearsall of Morrisville, New York; and four grandchildren. Two sons predeceased him, Stephen Bassett in 1967 and William Bassett in 1993.

      1930 Federal Census of New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut (11 Apr 1930)
      Harold Bassett - 37 - M - CT-CT-CT - Head - Clerk Railroad
      Mable - 42 - F - CT-CT-CT - Wife
      Dorothy - 7 - F - CT-CT-CT - Daughter
      Harold - 4 - M - CT-CT-CT - Son
    Person ID I2502  1B John Bassett of Connecticut
    Last Modified 23 Jan 2013 

    Father Harold Eugene Bassett,   b. 7 Jun 1892,   d. Jun 1967  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Mabel Preudhomme,   b. Abt 1888, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F932  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Diane Thomson,   b. Abt 1928, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 2004, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Married 1949 
    Children 
     1. Stephen Bassett,   d. 1967
    +2. William Lloyd Bassett,   b. 20 Mar 1952,   d. 2 Jun 1993  (Age 41 years)
     3. Jill T. Bassett
    Family ID F933  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S14] SSDI.